GM diet gets its name from General Motors diet. It was developed to promote and sustain the health and diet of the employees of General Motors. This diet plan became popular and owes its authenticity to the grant of the US Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration in 1985.

This diet plan promises fitness and weight loss but like every other diet plan, this one too works on certain limitations. While following the proper structure, the individual is advised to stay under medical monitoring and consult his physician on a regular basis. If your body suffers from any sort of ailment, or you are a child or a pregnant lady, you are advised to refrain from following this diet regimen.

A doctor or a nutritionist is the best person to advise you on whether the GM diet would actually work for you. As you do a bit of research or consult people who have been on this diet plan, you might discover certain disadvantages of this diet. People are observed to suffer from problems like persistent or sudden hair loss, coupled with headache and dry skin for the first few days after embarking on this diet plan. This is the exact reason why it is strongly recommended that you drink a lot of water so that your body does not experience dehydration at any given moment.

Common Side-Effects of GM Diet 

Talking of side effects, here are some common ones that people undertaking GM diet often suffer from:

Fruit Diet Becomes Monotonous 

Say if you are not particularly fond of apples, on day one itself, you might be pissed off. Then on the second day you feel that just a bite of apple is all that you can bear. And on the third day you end up feeling that all fruits and vegetables taste all the same! You begin to apprehend your diet plan nothing less than a self-imposed torture. And the moment you are feeling this, you have lost all motivation for the diet plan.

Water Intake Requires to Be Noted 

You need to maintain a tally-bar on the amount of water you are having throughout the day. Counting the bottles is important for the diet plan. Like it or not, you begin to think of yourself as a camel!

Frequently Visits to Restroom 

This problem is followed by the countless visits you are forced to make to the restroom. As you strive to maintain the required number of bottles for the day, there is simply little that you can do to reduce the irritating rest room trips.    

Lot of Patience and Tolerance is Required

Your colleagues’ colorful and appetising lunch can only be an object of your envy, when you are bereft of options other than the bland curd rice with a pinch of pickle. You ‘suffer’ the entire day and then decide to binge on a couple of chocolate ice-creams or a pizza. You have basically undone the entire purpose of the diet!

It is the same journey towards the lack of motivation when you look at yourself in the mirror and feel that “I am not that unfit, so to hell with this torturous diet!” It is just the same when you curse every time you see your spouse’s plate or a commercial on TV. Sprinkling a generous amount of Chat Masala on fruits and pretending to believe that what you have consumed is perfectly healthy.